AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2815MHz vs 2498MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +964%

61.39 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +522%

30621

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +719%

4680

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +746%

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +635%

228

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +559%

310

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +328%

60

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +468%

108

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +467%

176

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +483%

175

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +306%

175

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +97%

190

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2022

Navi II

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1929 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

96

-

1024

Shading Units

6144

64

TMUs

384

32

ROPs

192

-

16

RT Cores

96

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

355W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Navi 31

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

2

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

3

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

4

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

5

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

6

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

7

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5470

8

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

9

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

10

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!